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Contamination of water with pharmaceutical substances and pesticides represents a serious ecological problem that threatens the environment and the health of people and animals. Traditional water treatment methods often fail to effectively remove these...

Electrical fields can be used to process materials at less demanding conditions, synthesize new phases and compositions. Herein, nanocrystals of CeO2 were synthetized and grown in-situ under AC and DC electrical fields. Main crystallographic properti...

Cerium dioxide is one of the oxides of rare earth elements. It has remarkable physical and chemical properties, particularly the ability to cleave many chemical bonds in hazardous and biologically active substances. This ability is related to the metho...

This study presents the results of a geochemical and LiDAR survey analysis carried out at the deserted medieval settlement and fortified manorial farm (motte-and-bailey) in Čečín, in Czechia (Western Bohemia, Plzeň-North District). Focusing on the site...

Boreal forests represent an important carbon sink and, therefore, significantly contribute to climate change mitigation. Tree-ring width series of boreal species reflect climate variation at the moment of tree-ring formation but also lagged climatic ef...

Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and cause economic damage worth billions of dollars every year. Processes that drive plant invasions involve multiple steps, from introduction, establishment, survival, persistence, dispersal and ...

Most plastics are currently recycled by mechanical recycling, i.e., melting and remolding plastic products. However, as plastics contain various additives, this process leads to their interaction and subsequent undesirable properties in the end product...

Bulk metallic glasses lack long-range order characteristics of their counterpart crystalline alloys. The unique atomic ordering makes metallic glasses very attractive for structural applications due to their large elastic strain, high strength, and har...

Man has always needed water for his life and therefore settled near rivers. They have not only used the water resources, but have also changed them according to their needs. Old maps and aerial photographs show how rivers have changed their course over...

Petroleum hydrocarbons have many applications and therefore belong among the most common pollutants in the environment. A perspective "green" remediation method is phytoremediation using energy crops, where the plant contributes to soil purification an...